Bennett v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.3d 687 · 2002
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust · Bazemore v. Friday
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o prove a violation of this provision, a plaintiff must proffer either direct or indirect evidence of the employer's discriminatory intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he same standards governing liability under Title VII apply to section 1981.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court may not hold a government entity, such as a board of education, liable under § 1983 unless the entity adopted a policy or custom that resulted in the deprivation of the plaintiff's constitutional rights.” Bennett v. Roberts, 295 F.3d 687, 699 (7th Cir.2002) (citing Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 694 , 98 S.Ct. 2018 , 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978)). For purposes of her federal claims, Fennerty takes no particular care in pleading that a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.